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La Silla Observatory
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Key facts
- Organization
- European Southern Observatory
- Location
- Coquimbo Region , Chile
- Altitude
- 2,400 m (7,900 ft)
- Website
- www .ls .eso .org /index .html
- Telescopes
- ESO 1-m Schmidt telescope BlackGEM ESO 3.6 m Telescope MASCARA MPG/ESO telescope New Technology Telescope Rapid Eye Mount telescope Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope TAROT-South robotic observatory TRAPPIST
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical observatory
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Coquimbo Region
- Elevation
- 2400
- Operator
- European Southern Observatory
- Official website
- www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html
- Image
- Observatoire de LaSilla depuis la route de Las Campanas.jpg
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- date of official opening
- 1964-00-00
- Commons category
- La Silla Observatory
- located in/on physical feature
- Atacama Desert
- officially opened by
- Eduardo Frei Montalva
- inception
- 1964-00-00
- native label
- La Silla Observatory
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Encyclopedic overview
La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with three telescopes built and operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Several other telescopes are also located at the site and are partly maintained by ESO. The observatory is one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere and was the first in Chile to be used by ESO.
The La Silla telescopes and instruments are located in the North of the Coquimbo region, 150 km northeast of La Serena, on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert, one of the driest and most remote areas in the world. Like other observatories in this region, La Silla is far from sources of light pollution and, like the Paranal Observatory—home to the Very Large Telescope—it has some of the darkest night skies on Earth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Silla Observatory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.